Re: [Visualpython-users] No effect of shininess on box?

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

There are some issues with boxes in Visual 4. But it's irrelevant, 
because Visual 5 is different in this area with its emphasis on material 
properties; there is no shininess attribute.

The last large known problem in Visual 5 (poor performance on Linux) was 
fixed today. The remaining list of known bugs is now very short, and I 
think a release of Visual 5 is imminent. We're calling the upcoming 
release "5" instead of "4" to emphasize that 4 never made it out of 
beta, and as previously announced the new version has some syntax that 
is incompatible with 4.

Bruce Sherwood

Anders Petersson wrote:
> Hello,
> I must have missed something simple here, because these two boxes look 
> identical to me:
> 
>> >> from visual import *
>> >> a = box(pos=(0,0,0), color=(0.3,0.3,0.3))
>> >> b = box(pos=(2,0,0), color=(0.3,0.3,0.3), shininess=0)
> 
> Actually texture_and_lighting.py also shows shiniess for the boxes with 
> "shininess=0" so maybe it isn't just me after all.
> Might the grim truth be that shininess is not changable for boxes?
> Setting "lit" works, but this looks pretty dull.
> 
> Regards
> /Anders